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Not long after taking over as controller of Radio 1 in 2011, Ben Cooper said he wanted to move the station’s listenership away from the “festival dad who refuses to grow up” and towards the station’s intended 15 to 29-year-old demographic. This brings up two questions. First, how do you run a radio station for young people when young people no longer listen to the radio? And second, what has he got against festival dads?

For the first question at least, Cooper has an answer: to transform Radio 1 into a radio/television/website hybrid. An interview with the American rapper Kanye